unresolved history Quotes

You can sleep in a coffin,but the past aint through with you!

'Haunted by the past' is a commonplace phrase because it's a commonplace experience. Even if one is not, strictly speaking, 'haunted', the past is perpetually with one in the present, and the longer it grows and the further it recedes the stronger its presence seems to become.

The book says we may be through with the past but the past ain't through with us.

The past isn't over. It isn't even past.

As history stands, it is a sort of Chinese play, without end andl without lesson. With these impressions I wrote the last line of my History, asking for a round century before going further.

The past is nothing but a weight. It will build inside of you like a stone.

Historic scores cannot be settled, and scars cannot be obliterated.

We may be through with the past, but the past is not through with us.

There is no escape from yesterday because yesterday has deformed us, or been deformed by us. The mood is of no importance. Deformation has taken place.